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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Canva: Melanie Perkins
- ▶ 2:52 Guy Raz And when Melanie went to university to study communications, this was in the mid-two thousands, she started using graphic design and publishing software, programs like Adobe InDesign or Microsoft Publisher, and she was frustrated that the…
- ▶ 3:27 Melanie Perkins And so I had this very oversized vision for taking on all of these different industries from, you know, Microsoft Office and lots and lots of other industries as well.
- ▶ 6:23 Guy Raz Go on Microsoft Word or, or like? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:26 Melanie Perkins Yeah, Microsoft Word or Publisher.
- ▶ 12:02 Melanie Perkins And it had a picture of us beating Microsoft Office, and Adobe, and Google Docs, and a whole bunch of other companies.
- ▶ 23:42 Guy Raz but, you know, like, look, Microsoft or Google, the minute they see what you guys do, they'll crush you because they'll just put something else out way bigger, and, and, I mean, you're just going to get crushed right away.
SoulCycle: Julie Rice & Elizabeth Cutler
- ▶ 48:01 Julie Rice Now you know how to look at all those Excel spreadsheets, and P&L, and all that stuff, and you can make yourself crazy, but I think at the time, you know, what we didn't know helped us, and we just trusted our gut, and we went.
Live Episode! RXBAR: Peter Rahal
- ▶ 25:33 Peter Rahal You know, we couldn't afford, um, a, like, proper packaging, um, so we just, we designed it on PowerPoint, and then we would send the. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:58 Peter Rahal Instead of going to a designer, we went to PowerPoint.
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson
- ▶ 50:28 Mike Sorrentino Right, and our logo is something I made up in Microsoft Paint.
Honest Tea: Seth Goldman (2017)
- ▶ 6:07 Seth Goldman These days, people really put together PowerPoints.
Stitch Fix: Katrina Lake
- ▶ 26:06 Katrina Lake PayPal requests you for 20 dollars, you'd give me 20 dollars, and then I would send you a shipment of five items, and inside there was like a paper return survey, because we still didn't have a website, and so it was a piece of paper that… 2 times in the scene
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales
- ▶ 12:17 Jimmy Wales One of the problems that Newpedia had, uh, is that the only real way to collaborate back then was to email around a Word doc. 2 times in the scene
LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman
- ▶ 2:14 Guy Raz Reed is probably best known for creating LinkedIn, which was sold to Microsoft for twenty six billion dollars.
- ▶ 31:27 Guy Raz Okay, so in 2016, LinkedIn actually sold to Microsoft for twenty six billion dollars, which is really incredible.
- ▶ 33:45 Reid Hoffman Microsoft, obviously, one of them.
Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard (2016)
Framebridge: Susan Tynan
- ▶ 22:37 Susan Tynan I say we because there were some people on the PowerPoint, um, pitch check who now have joined.
Live Episode! BuzzFeed: Jonah Peretti
- ▶ 6:01 Jonah Peretti We do social protest letters using the Microsoft Word, Wizard, you know, we could do kind of any topic because technology was new, so from the reaction of the students, I could get a sense of what was getting their brains going and do, and…
Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones
- ▶ 32:45 Raegan Moya-Jones You know, you can get by with running your business on Excel spreadsheets at thirty million.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
- ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz So if you have a PC at home or at work, and you buy some software like Word or TurboTax, it doesn't really matter if you have a Dell or an HP or a Toshiba, because if it's a PC, it will run PC software, and that makes perfect sense, right?
- ▶ 30:34 Guy Raz You think about Compaq, it was such a powerhouse in the eighties, a fortune 500 company, does a billion dollars in revenue within five years, and then you think about all of the companies that, that it was associated with, or that it… 2 times in the scene
AOL: Steve Case
- ▶ 18:44 Guy Raz All of a sudden, Microsoft says, we want to get into this business. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Steve Case They're planning to bundle it with every copy of Windows, but they respected what we were doing, and if we had a 2 times in the scene
Kendra Scott: Kendra Scott
- ▶ 11:47 Kendra Scott So I had a very, um, basic line sheet and an order form that I printed off of Word, and went in
Zappos: Tony Hsieh
- ▶ 7:26 Tony Hsieh And then ultimately ended up selling the company to Microsoft in 1998 for two hundred sixty five million.
- ▶ 8:50 Tony Hsieh Well, in Silicon Valley, usually there's a four-year, what's known as a four-year vesting for your stock, and I'd only been there for two and a half years, so really had to stay for another year and a half after Microsoft acquired us in…
Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
- ▶ 12:55 Neil Blumenthal Um, we actually prepared a PowerPoint, um, because even though this was going to be a vendor that we were buying from,
Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard
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